What do these two drawings by Ando, and Gehry, both of them famous “archistars”?

An architect publishes a sketch of a project only after having finished the full work.

It’s an extremely easy way to condense, synthesize and divulge a concept, or at least just that couple of ultimate ideas in the project.

Through his sketches, Frank Gehry,wants communicate mainly two things: chaos and wonder, while Tadao Ando, silence and order.

They are two opposite architects, jus like the poles of a battery, as you can see from the way each of them present graphically their ideas.

The sketch is the summary of what the project will become, When drawing Gehry comes very close to Gaudi and further back to the Baroque masters such as Borromini, where each implementation had to be personally followed up by the designer. Ando, instead, much more rational and ascetic, follows the tradition of Mies and other neoclassical architects, where order reigns.